Translingual

Proper noun

Mycoplasma n

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Mycoplasmataceae – bacteria that lack cell walls.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Prokaryota - superkingdom; Bacteria - kingdom; Posibacteria - subkingdom; Chloroflexi - phylum; Tenericutes - phylum; Mollicutes - class; Mycoplasmatales - order; Mycoplasmataceae - family

Hyponyms

• (genus): Mycoplasma capricolum, Mycoplasma pneumoniae, Mycoplasma genitalium, Mycoplasma mycoides - selected species; see Mycoplasma on Wikipedia.Wikipedia for others.

English

Wikispecies

Noun

mycoplasma ‎(countable and uncountable, plural mycoplasmas or mycoplasmata)

1. Any infectious bacterium of the genus Mycoplasma, often specifically Mycoplasma pneumoniae
   • 2007 January 5, Katie Zezima, “More Rhode Island Schools Closed in Disease Outbreak”, in New York Times:

     Officials are investigating whether the illness was caused by mycoplasma, a common bacteria known as walking pneumonia.

   • 2013 March 1, Harold J. Morowitz, “The Smallest Cell”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, page 83:

     It is likely that the long evolutionary trajectory of Mycoplasma went from a reductive autotroph to oxidative heterotroph to a cell-wall–defective degenerate parasite. This evolutionary trajectory assumes the simplicity to complexity route of biogenesis, a point of view that is not universally accepted.

Translations

Swedish

Noun

mycoplasma ?

1. (bacteriology) mycoplasma